Bale-tie



(No Model.)

B. W. WIOKEY.

BALE TIE. No. 487,504. Patented Dec. 6, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD W. WICKEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 487,504, dated December6, 1892.

Application filed March 16, 1892- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD W. WIoKEY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBale-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in wire bale-ties, thegeneral purpose of which is to strengthen the knot in the wire and toenable the tie to be fastened as easily as possible. In these ties aloop is ordinarily made in one end of the wire and the other end passedthrough and bent over this loop. The difficulty which has beenencountered is that the bend about the loop is so short as to endangerthe breaking of the wire. Certain improvements have been made with aview to overcoming this by making the loop in the end of the wiredouble, and my invention is in somewhat the same general line, but isalso designed to gain in addition to the advantages of the priorconstructions referred to certain others tending to render the knot morepermanent and the wire less likely to break.

The preferred form of inyinvention is shown in the two figures of thedrawings, in which Figure 1 shows two ends of a bale-tie knotted orlooped together, and Fig. 2 shows the same ends separated from eachother.

The two ends are lettered A B, and the first important feature ofmyinvention is the formation upon one end B of a sliding loop orslip-knot, so bent that the loop thereof shall be double in order thatthe other end, which is to be fastened in said loop, may be less liableto break. In combination with this sliding loop upon one end any of thecommon means for fastening the other end in the loops heretofore usedmay be employed, or the other end of the wire may be left entirely plainand bent upward through the loop and backward about itself; but I preferto use, in combina- Serial No. 425,108. (No model.)

tion with the sliding loop, an enlarged head, which forms anotherfeature of my invention. This head is shown at the left hand in thedrawings, and is formed by passing the Wire between two pins, then backand half-way around the same, and then back between the pins andtwisting it upon the main strand of the wire. The use of this enlargedhead in connection with the sliding loop saves the bending of the wirein fastening it about a bale, inasmuch as the slip-knot closes in aboutthe twisted neck and prevents the head from being drawn through.

While the two ends of the bale-tie shown in the drawings appear to bequite different, they are yet alike to the extent that the easiest wayof forming the sliding loop is to form an enlarged head similar to theone shown and then to bend the two loops of which it consists together.It will be noticed that the head lettered a upon the end lettered A iscomposed of two loops a a united by a connecting portion a In formingthe head it is better to have the connecting portion a between the twowires a a In forming the loop, however, both of said wires which arelettered b 17 upon the loop end are arranged upon the same side of theconnecting portion b and the two loops or eyes are bent toward eachother upon this side until they take the position shown upon the end B.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A bale-tie havingone end bent into two 0ppositely-arranged loops a a and then back uponand fastened to itself, and the other end bent back upon itself to forma loop, and the two strands of which said loop is composed then passedthrough the end thereof to form a double loop, substantially asdescribed.

EDWARD W. WICKEY.

Witnesses:

CHAS. O. SHERVEY, GERALD MAHONY.

